The Texas Meat and Imitation Food Act bill is designed to codify “meat” as derived solely from carcases of cows, chickens or other livestock, with no “lab-grown, cell cultured, insect or plant-based food products” included.
The law is intended to prohibit companies from misleading consumers by blocking the words “meat,” “beef,” “chicken,” “pork” or any “common variation” of them from being used on packaging, even if only to claim similar textures, flavors or cooking methods, unless the official definitions are met, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The bill will also keep companies that produce food from insects, plants or cell cultures, not slaughtered animals, from using the label “meat,” “pork,” “poultry” or “beef.”
It wouldn’t prevent the use of “burger” or other non-specific terms.
These types of laws are not designed to protect consumers. Very few people, if anyone, are stupid enough to buy these products by mistake, it’s just agricultural groups lobbying government to force costly rebranding processes on their competitors. This is completely anti-free market. But that’s nothing new, the at sector hates free market capitalism.
Let’s hope we follow suit here in Australia.Meat should only be called meat when it is derived from a animal carcass. Laboratory grown protein should be classified as such.
USDA has allowed labeling fraud for decades and now with the Lab Slimers pouring millions into dishonest propaganda…….states are being forced to do USDA’s job.
It is about time that we address this in Australia lets hope that MLA will take a stand on this and follow America’s cattle producers